The Big Book Of Layouts

A collection of the latest layout designs and ideas for amateur and professional graphic designers. Organized so as to encourage creativity, serendipitous discovery, and inspiration, THE BIG BOOK OF LAYOUTS includes techniques that can be used to enhance any layout. It provides insights into the elements that make layouts effective. It covers a range of styles, from traditional to cutting edge, that were selected to help designers think more creatively and be more productive. With more than 750 outstanding layouts featured in a robust visual gallery with detailed descriptive information, this book provides a thorough look at what goes into an effective layout design.

An exciting collection of the latest and most visually engaging layout designs and design ideas for amateur and professional graphic designers. Organized to encourage creativity, serendipitous discovery, and inspiration, The New Big Book of Layouts includes techniques that can be used to enhance any layout design--be it in print or online. It provides insight into the elements that make layouts effective, and covers a range of styles--from traditional to cutting edge--selected to help designers and design students make their work more creative, more readable, and more visually engaging for an audience. With more than 750 outstanding layouts featured in a robust visual gallery with detailed descriptive information and design analyses, this book provides a thorough look at what goes into today’s most effective layout designs and how designers and design students can improve their work.

This classic one-stop, hands-on treasury of practical advice for Lionel enthusiasts has been updated to include products such as FasTrack and Legacy, which were unavailable at the time of its original publication in 2004.

Page After Page of Inspiration! If you're feeling overwhelmed with stacks of photos, or stuck in a scrapbooking rut, look no further for answers and inspiration! The Big Book of Scrapbook Pages will help you find the creative spark, and motivate you to try exciting new things in your layouts. Inside, you'll find: • Over 500 never-before-seen traditional, digital hybrid layouts • 50 sketches for both 12 x 12 and 8 1/2 x 11 pages • Hints, tips and creative ideas for enhancing your layouts • A variety of topics and themes, including: birthdays, holidays, seasons, babies and kids, pets and special occasions Don't be discouraged—get inspired with The Big Book of Scrapbook Pages!

A complete beginner’s course with step-by-step lessons on how to work with tarot cards for personal guidance. Joan Bunning’s “Learning the Tarot—An Online Course” has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide discover the personal value of the tarot. Drawing on the material offered in this popular online course and from her previous books, Joan has created a complete guide to tarot for beginners, which serves as a handy and in-depth resource for more experienced tarot card readers as well. While there are countless books devoted to tarot, what sets Joan Bunning’s book apart is her ability to take a rather complicated esoteric system and break it down into clear, manageable, and easy-to-learn lessons. These lessons cover the basics and then move gradually into more advanced concepts. The book includes: Lessons on how to consider one card by itself, how to look for card pairs, and how to create the "story" of a reading Contains two pages of information for each card including a picture from the popular Rider Waite deck, a description, keywords, action phrases, and suggestions for cards with similar and opposite meanings How to work with reversed cards to give tarot readings a natural flow of high points and low points without abrupt transitions Practical insights on how to work with and interpret a wide variety of tarot spreads

When Lionel introduced its new FasTrack system in 2004, model train enthusiasts quickly warmed to the increased realism—right down to the integrated roadbed and darkened center rail—and the greater ease of use. In this book, the author of The Big Book of Lionel presents the first complete guide to the FasTrack system. Amply illustrated with color photographs and 36 track diagrams, the book instructs readers on every aspect of the system, from assembling and disassembling FasTrack to building a simply oval, planning a layout within various space constraints, building tracks for two trains and reversing trains, and designing unique layouts—even yard layouts.